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Quote by Samuel Johnson
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any mans virtues the means of deceiving him. – Samuel Johnson

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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. – Samuel Johnson

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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. – Samuel Johnson

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I am concerned for the security of our great Nation not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within. – Douglas MacArthur

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Mankind is made great or little by its own will. – Friedrich Schiller

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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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